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One of 50 National Register listings published here for Marin County · listed in 2024 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
The Last Resort Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1914.
The listing
- Address. 230 Cintura A venue and 2 Alta A venue, Lagunitas, 94938
- When was it listed? March 2024
- Category. district
- Census division. Northwest Marin
- National Register reference number. 100010109 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1914 to 1983The ground this property stands on, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
38 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of The Last Resort Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 341 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Point Reyes National Seashore | RANDALL |
| 21 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.2 acres | Point Reyes National Seashore | DRAKE 2 |
| 18 September 2002 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Point Reyes National Seashore | TEIXERA |
| 10 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 151 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 9 August 2012 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Marin County Fire Department | not named |
| 9 August 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Golden Gate National Recreation Area | WHITEGATE |
| 9 August 1992 | Fireworks | 2.2 acres | Golden Gate National Recreation Area | OLEMA I |
| 9 August 1992 | Fireworks | 4.6 acres | Golden Gate National Recreation Area | OLEMA II |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 20 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of The Last Resort Historic District: 15 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Baker | Manganese, Gold | Occurrence | Psilomelane | |
| Maillard Ranch | Chromium | Occurrence | ||
| Mount Tamalpais Cemetery Quarry. | Stone, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Randall | Silver, Gold | Unknown | ||
| Union Gulch | Copper, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | 1863 | |
| Unnamed Location | Gemstone | Occurrence | ||
| Claims | Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Claims | Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Maillard Ranch | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Maillard Ranch | Manganese | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
1 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lagunitas, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1999 | Heavy Rain | Lagunitas | 1 killed, $24,000 | a 70 year old woman was killed 2 miles from Luganitas in Mariun County by a 100 foot tree that fell on her car due to the soggy ground and wind. |
Maps showing this location
10 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1914 USGS Petaluma quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Petaluma quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Petaluma quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1954 USGS San Geronimo quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Napa quadrangle1:100000
Listed places nearby
4 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olema Valley Dairy Ranches Historic District | 2.2 miles | 2018 | |
 | Olema Lime Kilns | 3.1 miles | 1976 |
 | Tocaloma Bridge | 3.9 miles | 2018 |
 | Marconi-RCA Bolinas Transmitting Station | 7.3 miles | 2018 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010109 in Record Group 79. |
| Marin County | All 50 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.